Module: Gender Sexuality & Migration

Module Specifications.

Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025

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Date posted: September 2024

Module Title	Gender Sexuality & Migration
Module Code	LC583 (ITS) / CUS1022 (Banner)
Faculty	Humanities & Social Sciences	School	SALIS
Module Co-ordinator	Alicia Castillo Villanueva
Module Teachers	Jean-Philippe Imbert
NFQ level	9	Credit Rating	10
Pre-requisite	Not Available
Co-requisite	Not Available
Compatibles	Not Available
Incompatibles	Not Available

None
The repeat examination will also be 3,000 – 3,500 words essay.

Description

This module analyses what is at stake when sexual and gender identity performances and literacies collide with the migrancy process, and investigates how different factors may redefine the parameters of refugee populations’ self- sexual and gender appraisal. All sexualities are dealt with (heterosexual, homosexual and queer) ; all genders are discussed, from the perspectives of women studies, masculinity and queer studies. The module also looks at how front-line service providers and people dealing professionally with refugees approach this parameter of refugee integration. In so doing this module aims at • Providing practical markers for the understanding of the mechanism of sexual literacy and relationships during and post-transit, • Understanding the morphing narratives of cisgender, transgender and queer identities impacted by forced migrancy, • Evaluating the presence, role and impact of sexual matters in the integration process, • Elaborating on the nature of family and relationships interaction during and post-transit • Assessing the impact of post transit sexual interference and trauma where abuse, rape, trafficking, FGM, prostitution are re-defining the sexual identity of the refugee

Learning Outcomes

1. Further their understanding of the practicalities of effective sexual literacy interaction in any diasporic situation
2. Evaluate the presence, role and impact of sexual matters in this crisis
3. Develop an awareness of the sexual matters, markers and identifiers which have shaped the sexual identity and performance of the arrival population
4. Expand the required skills needed to interact effectively, ethically and professionally with the arrival population on sexual and gender matters
5. Identify communication priorities in managing a crisis situation related to sexuality and gender intimacy and trauma.
6. Develop and manage effective relationships with the diasporic population surrounding these matters
7. Deal effectively with impromptu matters raised by the diasporic population

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Seminars	24	No Description
Independent Study	190	No Description
Directed learning	12	Material uploaded onto the online interface previous to be session to be cogniscent of for seminar discussions.
Class Presentation	12	Preparation for in-class presentations
Assignment Completion	12	Essay methodology preparations
Seminars	24	No Description
Independent Study	226	No Description
Total Workload: 500

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Identity 1
The body as sexual space: who am I sexually upon arrival? How does a service provider deal with sexual identity and space?

Identity 2
Being a woman in the new space: What are the new parameters of motherhood, sisterhood, widowhood, or being a woman as a fully-fledged sexual being in a migratory situation?

Identity 3
Space as a challenge to masculinity: What are the new parameters of masculinity, brotherhood, sexual male identity in the fluid space of migrancy?

Problems and Challenges 1
Generating a space to access and provide sexual services: How do we deal culturally with body issues, and medical queries: sanitary issues, pregnancy, STI, HIV and AIDS.

Problems and Challenges 2
Families, space and sex: What role does “family” as a concept play? How to address the different family structures in a migrant situation?

Problems and Challenges 3
Violence, trauma, transitional spaces and sexualities: How do address sexual interference post-transit? How to articulate sexual trauma ?

Problems and Challenges 4
Transactional Sex and Spaces: How to deal with sex-trafficking, child-brides, prostitution?

Integration 1
Relationships, space and sex: Dealing with new sexual relationships in a new space. How to carry the baggage of the past?

Integration 2
LG and coming out in the new space : How to deal with homosexuality in the new space?

Integration 3
Non-binary and the new-space: MSM, She-males, Katoi matters in Western situations?

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	100%	Examination Weight	0%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown
Essay	The assessment will consist of a 3500-word essay.	70%	n/a
Participation	In-class presentations	30%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories: Resit category 1: A resit is available for both* components of the module. Resit category 2: No resit is available for a 100% continuous assessment module. Resit category 3: No resit is available for the continuous assessment component where there is a continuous assessment and examination element.
* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a Continuous Assessment/Examination split; where the module is 100% continuous assessment, there will also be a resit of the assessment
This module is category 1

Indicative Reading List

Calogero Giametta: 2017, The Sexual Politics of Asylum, Routledge, 9781315561189
Francesca Stella, Yvette Taylor, Tracey Reynolds, Antoine Rogers eds.: 2016, Sexuality, Citizenship and Belonging: Trans-National and Intersectional Perspectives, Routledge, Routledge, 9781315752563
Spijkerboer Thomas ed.: 2013, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Asylum, Routledge, 9781138930131
Eithne Luibhéid: 2002, Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 9780816638048
Michael J. Palmiotto: 2014, Combating Human Trafficking: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Taylor and Francis, 9781482240399
Jacqueline Stevens: 2016, Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness, Duke University Press, 9780822362
Marie Segrave, Sanja Milivojevic, Sharon Pickering eds: 2012, Sex Trafficking, Routledge, 978184392510
edited by Ravi K.S. Kohli and Fiona Mitchell.: 2007, Working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children, Basingstoke; Palgrave Macmillan, 9781403997548
Eithne Luibhéid & Lionel Cantú Jr., eds: 2008, Queer Migrations Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings, Duke University Press, 9780816644

Other Resources

64490, Online resource, 0, The International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, http://www.iasscs.org/,